A world record for MS Dhoni

Dhoni's match-winning 77 off 56 balls lifted his career strike-rate to 108.73, which is the highest for any batsman in ODIs writes Rajneesh Gupta.

MS Dhoni registered a world record on his name in Karachi ODI that almost went unnoticed.

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Dhoni's match-winning unbeaten 77 (off 56 balls) lifted his career strike-rate (runs per 100 balls) to 108.73, which is the highest for any batsman in the history of ODIs.

Dhoni displaced Pakistan's Shahid Afridi from the top position in the list of batsmen with highest career strike rate.

Interestingly Dhoni is the only one in the following list to also maintain an average of 50-plus.

Dhoni's match-winning unbeaten 77 off 56 balls lifted his career strike-rate to 108.73, which is the highest for any batsman in the history of ODIs.

Highest career strike-rate in ODIs (Min.1000 runs)

SR	Batsman	For	Mts	Inns	NO	Runs	Hs	Avg	100
108.73	MS Dhoni	Ind	35	31	10	1133	183*	53.95	2
108.51	Shahid Afridi	Pak	219	210	9	4819	109	23.97	4
99.43	IDS Smith	NZ	98	77	16	1055	62*	17.29	0
97.82	V Sehwag	Ind	141	138	7	4220	130	32.21	7
96.66	RL Powell	WI	109	100	16	2085	124	24.82	1
96.37	AC Gilchrist	Aus	234	228	9	7985	172	36.46	14
95.07	Kapil Dev	Ind	225	198	39	3783	175*	23.79	1
92.01	A Symonds	Aus	141	112	20	3491	156	37.94	4
90.20	IVA Richards	WI	187	167	24	6721	189*	47.00	11
89.91	L Klusener	SA	171	137	50	3576	103*	41.10	2
89.75	A Flintoff	Eng	98	86	12	2601	123	35.14	3
89.06	ST Jayasuriya	SL	354	345	15	10512	189	31.85	19
88.70	N Boje	SA	115	71	18	1414	129	26.67	2
88.28	Wasim Akram	Pak	356	280	55	3717	86	16.52	0
87.55	MJ Clarke	Aus	74	67	19	2237	105*	46.60	2
86.14	Yuvraj Singh	Ind	142	128	19	3781	139	34.68	6
85.98	AB Agarkar	Ind	155	94	26	1123	95	16.51	0
85.98	SR Tendulkar	Ind	362	353	33	14146	186*	44.20	39